Rallies drawing hundreds of people on both sides of a contentious proposal that could allow people to cite strong religious
beliefs to deny services for activities such as same-sex weddings didn't seem to change any minds among Indiana legislators
Monday.

An attorney for a woman who's challenging her two grandsons' adoption by their maternal grandmother told the Indiana
Supreme Court on Monday that their adoptions should never have happened because the other woman's felony conviction disqualifies
her from being an adoptive parent.

Facts from an incident that do not result in a felony conviction cannot be taken into consideration by a judge when determining
a person is disqualified from filing for mandatory expungement of a different felony conviction resulting from the same incident,
the Indiana Court of Appeals held Monday.

In finding both constitutional and statutory guarantees were transgressed, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the decision
by a lower court to convert an omnibus hearing on a termination of parental rights matter into a final hearing while mother
was not present, which led to the termination of her parental rights.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a man’s claims that his convictions stemming from his involvement in a drug
dealing operation should be overturned, but the judges did vacate the conditions of his supervised release Friday.

A former Clark Superior judge who oversaw the southern Indiana county’s drug court and left the bench amid allegations
of jailing participants without due process will never serve as an Indiana judge again.

The Justice Department is at odds with Google and privacy groups over the government's push to make it easier to locate
and hack into computers in criminal investigations, a simmering conflict with constitutional and policy implications.

The speedy-trial clock did not begin to run upon the federal government’s filing of a complaint and detainer against
an Indiana man, so the 16-month delay in filing the federal indictment did not violate his right to a speedy trial, the 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday.

The Indiana Court of Appeals ordered a Howard Superior judge to sentence a man to the terms of the plea agreement that he
had entered into on drug charges before the judge revoked the agreement and ordered him to continue to trial.

A man challenging the proposed value of his pension’s surviving spouse benefit in a dissolution proceeding had to file
his own Ind. Trial Rule 60(B) motion and not rely on the same motion filed by his ex-wife, the Indiana Court of Appeals held
Thursday.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a $1.4 million judgment in favor of a company hired by Lake County to collect delinquent
real property taxes, finding the lower court improperly interpreted the collections contracts as a matter of law.